Grand Meadow Township News
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Sept. 1892, Reuben Strickland, of
Grand Meadow township, met with a horrible accident last Thursday
afternoon, which will possibly end in the loss of his life. He had just
finished topping his last stack of hay and slid to the ground. A
pitchfork was leaning against the side of the stack and Strickland
struck the handle in his descent. The blunt wooden handle passed up
through the pelvic bone, among the muscles of the abdomen and entered
the abdominal l cavity in the neighborhood of the navel. Mr. Strickland
lay down upon the ground and drew forth the handle from its deep wound.
When he did so the intestines followed it and protruded from the
lacerated cavity. (Source: Cherokee County Historical Society scrapbook)
Oct. 1892, R. G. Strickler,
of Grand Meadow, who was injured recently by falling on a pitchfork,
and who died after suffering intense agon, was a member of the Marcus
A.O.U.W. Lodge, and therefore his widow, who has two small children,
will draw $2,000. (Source: Cherokee County Historical Society scrapbook)
Note for above: The
two different articles offer two different names for the victim. This
website coordinator, through research of her own, finds his actual name
was Reuben Grove Strickler.
Oct 1892, Mrs. Strickler,
whose husband was recently killed by falling from a haystack upon a
pitchfork, had a public slae last week and has broken up housekeeping.
She will make her home with her sister, Mrs. John Montegul during the
winter. She has received from the AOUW, a check for $2,000, the amount
of insurance her husband carried in that Order. (Source: Cherokee County Historical Society scrapbook)
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